Cash-register.



No. 705,552. Patented July 29, I902. W. H. BELL.

CASH REGISTER.

(Application filed July 3Q, 1898.)

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CASH REG UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

W'ALTER H. BELL, OF DAYTON, OI-IIO, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO NATIONAL CASH REGISTER COMPANY, OF JERSEY CITY, NEWV JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

GASl-l-REG ESTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 705,552, dated July 29, 1902.

Application filed July 30, 1898. Serial No. 687,251. (No model.)

To (ZZZ whom it may concern: same to descend under the action of their Beit known thatI, WALTERH. BELL, acitisprings when the coupler is lowered. It will zen of the United States, residing at Dayton, be seen from the above that the said rods 6 in the county of Montgomery and State of are not held in their elevated positions upon 5 Ohio, have invented certain new and useful the descent of the key-coupler, as are the 55 Improvements in Gash-Registers, of which I regular tablet-indicator rods, but descend declare the following to be a full, clear, and with said coupler under the action of their exact description. respective springs. Each of these rods is pro- This invention relates to improvements in vided at its upper end with a yoke 7, the two I cash-registers, and has more particular relaarms of which extend, respectively, to the op- 60 tion to improvements in machines of the type posite sides of the bank of regular tablet-id patented to Thomas Carney, No. 536,015, dicators. Flash or guard platesS connect the dated March 19, 1895. arms of one yoke to those of the other and The primary object of the invention is to are located, respectively, in vertical planes to I provide in a machine of the class mentioned each side of the bank of tablet-indicators, so 6: an improved flash or guard for the indicatingas to hide the latter when the two are raised tablets to prevent them from becoming visitogether.

ble until after the registration has been com- It will be observed from the above that when pleted, and thus avoid any possibility of a key is operated its indicator is raised into fraudulent operation of the machine. exposed position, but as the flash-plates 8 are 70 In the appended drawings, forming part of correspondingly raised it does not become exthis specification, Figure 1 represents a verposed to view until the key is allowed to astical transverse section through a machine of sume its normal position, and thus permit the the class mentioned with my invention apkey-coupler and the guard supported thereby 2 5 plied thereto, and Fig. 2 represents a top plan to also descend. The said guard-plates pref- 75 view of the same. erably contain words such as Sale not reg- In the said drawings, 1 represents the frame istered, No sale, or No record, so that of the machine; 2, the operating-keys; 3, the the customer will know that the machine is key-coupler, and 4 the indicator-tablets for beingfraudulentlyoperated unless said guard said keys. The keys, key-coupler, registerdrops down out of sight and exposes the 80 ing mechanism, and indicators are of substanamount or other indicator-tablet. As long as tially the same construction and operation as the guard remains visible the indicators are those described in the said patent, and attenconcealed and the customer knows that the tion is therefore called to the same for a desale has not been registered; but when the taildescription of the parts. The key-coupguard has dropped sufliciently to expose the 8 5 ler 8, which is adapted to be elevated upon said indicators the registrationhas been comthe operation of any of the keys, as fully depleted and the period where fraudulent operscribed in the aforesaid patent, is arranged to ation may have been accomplished is past. operate two arms 5, pivotally mounted upon Having thus described my invention, what each end of the key-shaft 5. Each of these I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters 0 arms is formed with a hook end 5 similar to Patent, is the hook ends of the regular keys, with the 1. In a cash-register, the combination with exception that their hook extensions are of a series of keys, of a series of indicators, a such length as to always project above the key-coupler, two movable yokes and conneckey-coupler, and thus become coupled to the tions cooperating with the key-coupler so as to 5 same every time that said coupler is operated. be simultaneously moved thereby and guard- These arms 5 are adapted to cooperate with plates connecting the arms of said yokes so as vertical spring-pressed rods 6, similar to the to extend up on both sides of the indicators to regulartablet-indicator rods, to raise thesame conceal the same until the operation of the when the coupler is elevated and allow the keys is completed.

In a cash-register, the combination with a series of keys, of a series of indicators, a frame arranged to be operated by any one of said keys, levers pivoted independently of said frame but arranged to be engaged and positively operated by the same in both directions, and an indicator-guard mounted independently of said levers but arranged to be operated by the same.

3. In a cashregister, the combination with a series of opelatingkeys of a key-coupler cooperating therewith, indicators, pivoted levers mounted independently of the coupler but connected thereto so as to move positively therewith and a flash arranged to be operated by said levers to hide the said indicators while the keys are being operated.

4. In a cash-register, the combination with a series of operating-keys, of a key-coupler arranged to engage and hold said keys to simultaneous movement, a series of indicators,

an indicator-flash arranged to hide both sides of said indicators during the operation of the keys, and pivoted levers for operating said flash mounted independently of the coupler but coupled thereto so as to be moved positively therewith in both directions.

5. In a cash-register the combination with a series of operating-keys, of a series of indicators for said keys, a movable frame arranged to be coupled to said keys, two movable yokes cooperating with said frame and guard plates connecting the arms of said yokes so as to extend both in front and back of the indicators and hide the same during the operation of the keys.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

\VALTER H. BELL. .Vitnesses:

ALvAN MACAULEY, IRA BERKSTRESSER. 

